Lillian Rubin discusses 60 On Up: The Truth About Aging In America.
Best-selling author, sociologist, and psychotherapist, Dr. Rubin takes a penetrating look at the profound changes - personal and societal - that come with the new longevity, for those living it now and the boomers behind them in her new book, 60 On Up- Grace Cathedral
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Rev. Alan Jones
Alan Jones, Ph.D., has been dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco since 1985.
Jones was formerly the director of the Center for Christian Spirituality and Stephen F. Bayne Professor of Ascetical Theology at General Theological Seminary in New York City. Born and educated in England, Jones was also on the staff of Trinity Institute of Wall Street's Trinity Church. He became a citizen of the United States in 1975.
Jones is the author of several books, most notably, Soul Making, The Desert Way of Spirituality, Passion for Pilgrimage and most recently, The Soul's Journey: Exploring the Three Passages of the Spiritual Life with Dante as a Guide. He is widely known as a gifted preacher and travels throughout the world preaching, lecturing, and leading retreats.
Lillian B Rubin
Lillian B. Rubin talks about 60 On Up: The Truth About Aging in America. Lillian Rubin lives and works in San Francisco. She is an internationally
known writer and lecturer, who has published twelve books over the last three decades.
Scientific and medical disciplines, respectively, concerned with all aspects of health and disease in the elderly and with the normal aging process. Gerontology is concerned primarily with the changes that occur between maturity and death and with the factors that influence these changes. It addresses the social and economic effects of an aging population and the physiological and psychological aspects of aging to learn about the aging process and possibly minimize disabilities. Geriatrics deals with prevention and treatment of diseases once assumed to be inevitable in the elderly. See also aging.